Stanislas Roux-Valliard

Besides its new provisions defining the trade secret and sanctioning its infringements, the French Law of 30 July 2018 regarding Trade Secret offers new procedural instruments aimed at efficiently protecting the confidentiality of the exhibits submitted by the parties. Article L.153-2 of the Code of Commerce provides that any person having access to an exhibit

Cour de cassation, Commercial Chamber, 16 May 2018, No. 16-21638 The French Cour de cassation upholds the Paris Court of Appeal’s decision to reject an SPC application for a biological medicinal product which was based on the same patent as a first SPC but on a different market authorization. The Government of the United-States of

Stanislas Roux-Vaillard discusses the key points covered by the EU trade secrets directive that aims at protecting undisclosed know-how and business information. Member States will have to implement all the critical requirements now set as a minimum standard by the directive by 9 June 2018. Watch the v-log here Catch up on our earlier Trade

A letter to the customers of a handset conceiver and seller, warning them against possible infringement, may constitute an offer for a Fair Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (“FRAND”) license and is not constitutive of unfair competition. Wiko v. SISVEL, Commercial Court of Marseille, France 20/09/2016 The case reported is the first French FRAND-case initiated after the Huawei/ZTE

So, the UPC is coming in 2017. Patent owners have considered which of their crown-jewel European patents to opt-out of the system during the transitional period to avoid its unitary effect (a single action may revoke the patent in all designated states that are participating in the UPC). What next? Sit back and wait for

The First Instance Court of Paris has held* that when asserting alleged Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”), a patent holder first has to show that the process claimed in the asserted patent is identical to the process disclosed in the underlying standard. Vringo Infrastructure Inc. (“Vringo”) purchased roughly 500 patents declared by their initial owner as

Final injunctions for successful parties in patent cases in Europe have generally been seen as automatic but attitudes are evolving. Despite their differing common law and civil law systems, courts in the UK and continental Europe have tended to grant injunctions to successful patent owners after a trial as a matter of course. However, this

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